Can You Get a Customized Industrial Monitor on a Limited Budget?
August 28, 2024
Yes. A customized monitor does not have to start from a blank sheet: when the budget is limited, a monitor from an existing series can be adapted visually or given additional features, and only when a project needs it is a monitor developed entirely around your product. FORTEC Integrated, our sister company in Germany, calls these two routes semi.custom and full.custom, and builds both in its own production facilities.
What is the difference between semi-custom and full-custom?
Semi-custom changes a proven series product; full-custom develops a new one.
- Semi-custom suits a product that needs to stand out from its competitors on a limited budget. A monitor from the series range is customized in appearance or equipped with additional features, then manufactured for you.
- Full-custom suits a visualization solution for your own product, system or new project. The monitor is developed to your requirements, with support across technology, design, electronics and software through to series production.
Both routes can include an individual color design and your company logo for recognition, individual packaging, traceability of components and batches, EMC optimization, and financing models with extended warranty. Leasing is one of those models: all available monitors can also be leased through our monitor leasing program, with fixed rates and a contract tailored to your needs.
What can be customized on an industrial monitor?
Almost every layer of it: the display, the glass, the touch, the embedded system, the controls and the housing. Each adjustment is tested to defined standards so it integrates cleanly into the application. Special glass and customized touch solutions are a particular strength, and FORTEC Integrated brings more than 30 years of experience in electronics to the monitors it develops. Here in Ronkonkoma, New York, we supply TFT displays with customized bezels or housings in plastic or metal, and we procure every component from the front glass and touch through the display to the metal frame, adhesives and sealing tapes. Our in-house VacuBond® optical bonding adds the cover glass and touchscreen, and no bonding design is too custom for us.
What does a monitor on a production line have to withstand?
Fluctuating temperature and humidity, dust, oils and other airborne contaminants, and strong shocks or constant vibration. That is why the components are chosen for ruggedness, from the TFT panel to the embedded system. Combined with the right embedded PC and software support, an industrial touch monitor becomes an intelligent system for Industry 4.0: operators control machines through the touchscreen or integrated buttons and see real-time production data, and automated processes, up to neural networks for pattern recognition, reduce operating errors and shorten downtime. On a project basis, the hardware, software and support needed for IoT and AI integration can be evaluated with you.
How long will a customized monitor stay available?
FORTEC Integrated has guaranteed long-term availability of at least five years for its industrial monitors, and keeps monitors compatible with each other so a line can be expanded later without problems. For the parts inside, our obsolescence management monitors end-of-life notices and plans last-time buys or replacements early. For the wider design picture, see our industrial sector page and our technical services.
Tell us where your monitor has to work and how it should look, and we will take it from there. We recommend whether semi-custom or full-custom fits, handle the integration and the sourcing through the FORTEC Group, and stay with the project from first samples to series production. Contact FORTEC US.
